Word: nay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
...hands by trying to use blackjack tactics on Congressmen. "If you vote for the Landrum bill," one bakers' union man warned New York's liberal Republican John Lindsay, "we're going to have to work you over in 1960." Lindsay, outraged at such tactics, changed his nay decision to solid support for the Landrum-Griffin bill...
...Senate endorsed tax extension, 57-35. But it was a perilous victory for Johnson: all 35 nay votes were cast by Democrats. Analyzing the vote, restive Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark (TIME, July 6) pointed out that a majority of Johnson's Democratic troops were not following him, that he was having his way only through a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Clark then began to circulate a secret tally sheet of seven recent key votes, showing that a heavy majority of Democrats supported liberal amendments, only to see them abandoned or defeated in conference committee by the conservative...
...PERSECUTED-"We wish to give offense to none; nay, we desire freely to pardon all and to beg this of God. But our conception of our holy office demands that we do all we can to protect the rights of our brethren and children, that we persist in our asking that freedom of law ... be granted, as it ought, to everyone ... If the rights of God and religion have been ignored or trampled on, the very foundations of human society, sooner or later, collapse into ruin...
...whip, Illinois' Les Arends, had gone to work. All weekend they pestered and pressured their reluctant colleagues in the teeth of immense home-front opposition. Telephones buzzed and wires poured in from rural constituencies, urging passage of the bill. Worried Republicans from farm districts pleaded that a nay vote would be political harakiri, but Halleck sternly told them that it was a case of Ike or REA's Ellis-take your choice...